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In this Aug. 13, 2004, file photo, Kirk Jones poses for a photo at Terrapin Point on the American side of Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls State Park, N.Y. (Chip Somodevilla/Detroit Free Press via AP, File) Source

RUTLAND, Vt. — A Vermont farmer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing his daughter’s boyfriend and burying his body beneath a manure pile. The Rutland Herald reports that 62-year-old Stephen Pelletier pleaded no contest last year to second-degree murder in a plea deal. Source

An Alabama woman accused of “pretty horrific” sex crimes remains behind bars after police allege she photographed herself performing a litany of sex acts with her own kids before texting the disturbing images to an individual in Florida. Source

ABC says it has reached a settlement with a South Dakota meat producer that filed a more than $1 billion lawsuit US against the network over its reports on the company's lean, finely textured beef product that critics dubbed "pink slime. Source

HALIFAX - Another inmate has died from a drug overdose in Nova Scotia's largest jail, making it the second case in two years of a prisoner dying after taking prescription drugs obtained in the facility. Source

BOSTON -- A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to life in prison in the killing of 2-year-old girl who became known as Baby Doe after her remains washed up on the shore of a Boston Harbor island. Source

BOSTON — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to life in prison in the killing of 2-year-old girl who became known as Baby Doe after her remains washed up on the shore of a Boston Harbor island. Source

A resident of a burning apartment unit in downtown Toronto was plucked from a narrow third-floor ledge as smoke poured out of a nearby window. She was later charged with arson. Video provided to CTV News Toronto shows a woman on the ledge of a highrise near Sherbourne and Wellesley streets. Source

British police increased the number of people killed or presumed dead in the London highrise fire disaster from 79 to 80 on Wednesday, and said a final death toll may not be known until the end of the year. Source

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korea on Wednesday vowed to execute South Korea’s former president and her spy director, accusing them of planning to assassinate its supreme leadership. The official Korean Central News Agency said North Korea will impose a “death penalty” on ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye and former spy chief Lee Byoung Ho, and they could receive a “miserable dog’s death any time, at any place and by whatever methods from this moment. Source